Tailrank Spam
Everyone talks about Digg being gamed - but look at this spammed up Tailrank entry ..
Like - all of blogspace is talking about t00th wh1t3n1ng ....
UPDATE: I've been informed that tailrank have improved their spam detection abilities and that this entry slipped in while testing. Nice work - tailrank is good already and anything that can stop it becoming the "new digg" has to be welcomed ...
Tags: gaming the herd, digg, tailrank, splogs
Comments
Hey...
This wasn't an issue of being gamed or spammed. It was just a bug :).
We implemented a big backend change that had a error in promoting stories that were spam.
We fixed the bug a few hours later but a few slipped through in the interim.
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Burton | March 11, 2007 11:10 AM
Thanks for the comment
I read tailrank daily - and regard it as one of the better aggregators - it's nice to know that Tailrank is not going to become the "new digg" ...
keep doing what you are doing - tailrank works already - but reducing spam will improve it lots
Posted by: drk | March 11, 2007 9:34 PM